“Against war one might say that it makes the victor stupid and the vanquished malicious. In its favor, that in producing these two effects it barbarizes, and so makes the combatants more natural. For culture it is a sleep or a wintertime, and man emerges from it stronger for good and for evil.”
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“… human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them, but that life obliges them to give birth to themselves. —Gabriel García Márquez”
― Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature
― Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature
“I would readily admit that our present situation may be due to either a conspiracy of evil or a confederacy of dunces; cruelty and stupidity in humans know no bounds. But neither possesses anything close to the explanatory power of imitation.”
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“Everyone who enjoys supposes that the tree was concerned with the fruit, but it was really concerned with the seed.―In this lies the difference between all those who create and those who enjoy.”
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